Hey guys,

 

I have a slight dilemma, my current unraid box is nearing full capacity and so i need to start replacing some of my 1TB drives to 3TB drives

 

 

However, if i replace for example Disk 3 with a 3TB drive it will have 2TB remaining, however all of the other drives will still be full. Is there a way to balance the load out so that all drives have an equal amount of space left again?

 

 

The reason i ask is due to my split level for TV shows being 2 (Show Name > Season > Episodes) then it means that once a drive is full, new episodes for a season that has already started cannot be added anywhere.

 

Is there any quick-fire way to make this problem go away? Besides just moving a few TV show folders from one drive to another?

 

I realize this is a bit of an odd question, but i feel as unraid is used by many of us to handle media like this, it should be a problem a few people have faced.

 

So how have you overcome this problem?

There is no automatic balancing. You will have to manually move some of the active series seasons from the full disks to the emptier disk. Just use your PC and drag and drop for one disk each night before going to bed.

 

Peter

An Auto-Balancing feature would be interesting...could probably be made into a plug-in relatively easily for some of the more experienced coders on the forums.

What would be the advantage of doing this?  It seems to me that moving files( data) without a very good reason is nothing but a real opportunity to introduction errors and data corruption.  My philosophy is to never fix something that ain't broke...

For the OP, active seasons need room for future episodes.

 

Plug-in might not have been a good choice of words. It would be useful in one time situations in some cases. For most probably not.

Running three 3TB Hitachi drives for TV shows only. I spaced out shows that are currently active, renewed or soon to be aired with a new season over my 3 drives. That allows for room of expansion, once a show is canceled or finished I decide to keep it or not. Just deleted all the Flash Forward episodes 30 Gig because it is dead and I'll never watch them again. Big Bang Theory needs massive room for expansion because once the Blu-ray discs come out the 1.4 Gig Web-DL episodes will be replaced by BD discs. Needless to say I do some moving of folders from discs on HP Micro Server to Desktop PC or other disc on server.

 

You may want to investigate the thread under compulsive design for the HP N40L micro server, it is one dynamite box and it slices, it dices it stores your TV eps.